iPhone Equipped Passenger Challenges Crew Over Weather

It was only a matter of time after Apple's idiotic iPhone commercial that an airline passenger with an iPhone would proclaim himself Al Roker and question why his flight was delayed. Sure enough, a story from the PlaneBuzz.com blog reveals it's already happened:

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We push back, get advised of a ground stop in MEM due to storms in the area. Go to the penalty box and wait. My Captain does the lecture over the PA... not one minute later, we get dinged from the F/A "Some guy with an IPhone says the weather is good, and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?"

I want to tell this clown what he can do with his IdiotPhone - but the Captain does it even better. He gets on the PA and makes the following announcement :

"If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with IPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave."

Needless to say, the pax was pretty embarrassed. The F/A later told us the rest of the plane was outright laughing at this dude. What a clown."

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Part of me thinks this story isn't true, but I love it nonetheless.

Hey what's wrong with that Matt? That UAL 767 Capt. did it and all was well! Certainly calls into question the credibility of that iphone commercial and someone who's compensated to stretch the truth about a situation. All that pilot did was check the weather call dispatch and they were gone! While the passenger really had no right doing what they did I'm sure they got the idea from the commercial and therefore in my eyes prob thought they were just helping out. Standby for the next news story “passenger sues Apple for misleading advertising for being publicly humiliated” LOL

Let me ask you all something you remember that TV commercial for crazy glue? When the guy crazy glued his helmet to the steel beam and hung thousands of feet above the ground? Now, if I went out and bought crazy glue I sure as hell wouldn't do it but watching it subconsciously makes you think it's the greatest glue ever, hence you buy it. If people are going to believe everything they see on television we are all in trouble.

Nick, when I read your posts, I hear O'Reilly's voice in my head. haha

The important part of the commercial was that the pilot called Dispatch. Even if the story in the commercial were true, all of the details involved in setting up a flight like that can't be told in 30 seconds...especially to people who wouldn't care to hear the specifics of airport operations anyway.

oh, that's not true, thats not true!

Bryce is a real UA pilot and my best buddy! So ha!

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by NIKV69

Let me ask you all something you remember that TV commercial for crazy glue? When the guy crazy glued his helmet to the steel beam and hung thousands of feet above the ground? Now, if I went out and bought crazy glue I sure as hell wouldn't do it but watching it subconsciously makes you think it's the greatest glue ever, hence you buy it. If people are going to believe everything they see on television we are all in trouble.

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AMEN! Nick, I could not have said it better.

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Originally Posted by NIKV69

Let me ask you all something you remember that TV commercial for crazy glue? When the guy crazy glued his helmet to the steel beam and hung thousands of feet above the ground? Now, if I went out and bought crazy glue I sure as hell wouldn't do it but watching it subconsciously makes you think it's the greatest glue ever, hence you buy it. If people are going to believe everything they see on television we are all in trouble.

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The problem here isn't so much that people believe everything they see on television. There is a certain segment of the population who thinks that if Apple says it, it BECOMES true, if it wasn't already.

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Originally Posted by mirrodie

oh, that's not true, thats not true!

Bryce is a real UA pilot and my best buddy! So ha!

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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Cue Informant!

I have one and the weather isn't really accurate on it - it just says the temperatures for the week and what the weather will be like. It doesn't have a real-time weather tracker.